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Examples
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And Chicago became the storm-centre of the premature First Revolt.
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The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Chicago had always been the storm-centre of the conflict between labor and capital, a city of street-battles and violent death, with a class-conscious capitalist organization and a class-conscious workman organization, where, in the old days, the very school-teachers were formed into labor unions and affiliated with the hod-carriers and brick-layers in the American
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Without, the clouds grew thicker and blacker as the storm-centre came closer.
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It's not the storm-centre but it's the way in, or one of the ways in.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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It was appropriate enough: I was on my way to what London called the 'storm-centre' and bloody Parkis was right again.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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This was the storm-centre: the Kommandantur of Die Zelle.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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They had set me running and they wanted me to go on running in case by luck or acumen I found my way finally into what Parkis called the storm-centre.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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I began, I think for the first time, seriously to believe that I might be able to get clean away, lose myself where Richard Byron could not catch up with me, go right away with Louise until the storm-centre moved, and resume our disrupted holiday elsewhere.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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New York remained, throughout, the storm-centre of excitement.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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